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Well, my comp pc that I have about 300 jumps on is packed up in the Crossbow rig in a sleeve. The 24' flat unmodified reserve is a little out of date. The RW PC still needs a little repair work but has a weird ass pod. The UT-15 I'm still learning about in its sleeve. And somewhere is a red dbag for a PC with a number 8 gromment and tapes for rubber bands for the crown lines on the outside. BTW I do expect all of them to be jumped if I can find a sucker or loose even more weight. BTW have a number 8 grommet set if someone needs o e intalled.😉 To OP, use the minisystem with a modern chest reserve unless it moldy. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Scroll down to photography forum. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Back in the 80's, a local dz bum built himself the same type of rig. He did make a few test jumps on it to make sure it worked. ***Perhaps a throwout reserve PC is better than a pull-out reserve PC I have yet to see how an RSL/MARD will work with either one. Jerry Baumchen 80lb break cord or other suitable breakinking strebgth, weak link similar to stativ line pc assist? Problem is varying pull angles. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Last Hope Rope, and cone lock to go with it. Ripcord stop Pack opening band Double bridle Para-alert Swivel cone Crown lines. L&R Line release I have a McElfish catalog (know where it is) and an invoice somewhere. And a mount with two Para-alerts(one for eaxh ear) as well as my own bought new and two new old stock sets of L&R releases ond one set of NOS R-3 releases I plan on installing.on capewells next year to jump. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

I still want B-12's. And you do know that's not the same as a B-4 right? I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Crap, at least three of my rigs still have the velcro for the leg strap through out. That was my 4th main deployment system. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Many more factors for each individual situation. In the video situation if the jumper was used to rears and the canopy was controllable in spite of the locked brake he did good. He did not cutaway a canopy he had confidence would land him relatively safely to open his LAST CHANCE TO LIVE, which can malfunction, up to total, or of have a delayed opening. IF your canopy is controllable and either big enough to not matter much on rears or you have practiced and trained to land on rears then again, why cutaway your last chance to live. If you have never landed on rears and can't safely land your canopy in half brakes and it is small enough that an unpracticed rear riser landing might be dangerous then the choice to cutaway is reasonable. Locked brake on a Manta 280 who cares, on a velocity it may kill you. But while I never tell anyone they made the wrong decision if they cutaway and open their reserve, I might point out that they had other options to land their main safely. Again, reserves malfunction. Reserves often have never been jumped by the user. These days many are overloaded and are significantly different in performance and landing than the mains. Many newer jumpers seem to think that pulling your reserve is the final air bag safety cushion answer to anything. While it's nice to think so you are now relying on one parachute to work right and your ability to land a parachute you likely have never flown. IF YOU NEED IT USE IT! Don't dick around trying to 'fix' your main. Don't die without all your handles pulled and pulled high enough to work. But if it's stable and you can likely land it think about whether using you last parachute is worth the ability to use two toggles to land like your used to. All that said reserves usually work. If they didn't we wouldn't have a sport or we'd all be jumping base canopies. You shouldn't ever hesitate when your main is unlandable to use it. But when you've had a reserve total for 1400' like me ( I WASN'T the rigger) you know you want to use you main if you can. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

I'd suggest taking down the photos on the current link. Sounds like your current design is a lot different from the current photos. The current ones are hurting your reputation as you can tell from the feedback. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Take your mount and hang it on a wall sideways. Now hang your bath robe on it. If it stays its wrong. If it was wider at the helmet instead of the camera then your robe would fall off. Or do it this way. Wrap a bridle around it 360 degrees and see if it comes off cleanly. If your mount looked like a cone instead if a funnel it would. As it is I expect if you don't allow the helmet to rotate you can pull on it until your pins fail. Also the gaps between the camer and the mount should be a small as possible, ideally smaller than a line. Snags can come from all directions. IF it was wider on the bottom it would be harder to fit to the curve of multiple helmets. An idea I thought of was varying flexible gaskets to fit between the mount and helmet. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

To many variables with that description. Style construction wear quality of both flag and other equipment? 15' tall or long? Try again. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Trusting a rigger when I had 80 jumps who packed my crossbow round reserve into my profotype SST on the ground at the dz during jumping in about 20 m8nutes. And gave me a 1400' reseve total. I got to Sfruggle, Struggle,, Thu.... (mp) 300' terminal opening 2 second before bouncing. 20 second canopy ride. Why I became a rigger. Couldn't trust anybody else. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Why in the world do you try to protect the GoPro from snagging lines with something that looks a whole lot like a coat hook? Tangles are rarely neat and vertical. Expect or to hook things from any angle. Itr doesn't mater that a line oulled straight up slides off. Pull a line or bridle sideways and see what happens. Make the damn base wider than the go pro so that things tend to slide off instead of hang up. And make the gaps as small as possible. THEN your cutaway system would need to work much less often. When I was making a custom video mount with a hack saw, file and drill I made sure there were NO corners that something could get caught under from any direction. With something the size of a film slr, 1980's video camera and a newton ring sight you could be perfect but better than this. Sorry to be so blunt but there was another guy a few months ago who just couldn't understand it should wide at the helmet and taper around the camera. Btw darken the text and lighten the photos. Very hard to read some of tbe text against the dense photos. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Interesting what you find looking for other stuff. Attached is an image from the active website of a Ukranian Dropzone. (along with lots of ram air photos) Other photo show belly mount gear on a young woman hanging in a training harness and picking up a canopy, so not necessarily reenactor stuff. Uses square fabric pieces but unlike the T-11 still turns it into a round canopy. Can't read a word. Figured out Tandem and that's about it. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Hi Jerry, Well, 60's still works. The UT-15 may have been a copy of the Para-commander but it's not a very faithful one. The red front in the photos above is something like 4oz urethane coated inflatable boat cloth. The stuff is stiff, heavy and non porous. Then Pioneer's Russian PC out in 1972 was a copy of it, according to Gary Lewis. But Pioneer didn't use the non-porous fabric on the front. Jim Hayhurst on round accuracy canopies. " "A Brief History of Accuracy Parachutes" © 1996, by James Hayhurst In 1971, sophisticated round parachutes dominated the precision accuracy event. The new ram air inflated "square" parachutes were an unproven novelty. It was an exciting time for the sport, an historic era in which new technology lowered scores by two orders of magnitude over a five year period. In 1971 there were three competitive round parachutes: the Pioneer "Competition" Para Commander, the French Pappion, made by EFA, and the Russian UT 15. The battle between the Competition P.C. and the Pappion was fierce. Their performance was very close, and they enjoyed similar jumper loyalty and market share. But the UT 15 was actually the superior canopy, it had a better top speed, better glide, crisper turns, and sank better than the Pap or the P.C. However, it was almost impossible to get one in the west, with rigid cold war trade embargoes between the Soviet Union/Eastern Block countries and the west." But I wonder if mine isn't a 1974 with 74 as the first two numbers of the serial number. The new manual I have has a table comparing the series 2 (mine) and series 5 and came out in 1976. I don't decipher any mention of series 3 and 4. 1974 Style and Accuracy World Championships were in Hungary, a prime place for a trade. BTW sport clubs in former Soviet state and Russia apparently still use UT-15's, new from the factory. The rigger from the Ukraine I know said I could always call one of the clubs over there and ask about it. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

I mentioned before that I had a UT-15 given to me earlier this year. I didn't get it in the air this year but did get some help with original line configuration. Now I have a manual. I think its series 5 and my UT-15 is series 2 but still all good. Came off ebay from the Ukraine. Attached are scans of the photos and data panel that came with the canopy and the cover of the new to me Manual from 1976. Story that came with the canopy was that a member of the US Army Parachute Team traded for it in the 60's. They couldn't be caught with Soviet equip so they cut out the data panel and patched the hole, but kept the data panel. (see scan) Anybody from the Knights able to confirm trip to USSR or story? Can help with contact to any 1960's Knight still with us? edit Finally found list of World Parachuting Championships. If in mid 60's may have been trade with USSR jumpers but not in USSR. Number, Year, Country, # of Countries Participating 2 1954 France 8 3 1956 Moscow, Russia 10 4 1958 Czechoslovakia Rules 14 5 1960 Sophia, Bulgaria 12 6 1962 Orange, MA USA 26 7 1964 Leutkirch, West Germany 29 8 1966 Leipzig, Germany ? 9 1968 Graz, Austria 26 10 1970 Bled, Yugoslavia ? 11 1972 Tahlequah, OK USA 31 Photos in scan came with canopy and are decades old. It is on US risers and has been tied off shortlined but all the line is still there. Hope to restore line configuration (supposedly really sensitive to it) and get it in the air. But, can anybody translate the cover for me? I imagine I can come close just guessing. Really need someone to translate entire manual but hope to find that locally. Or a very bored volunteer to work with scans? Pages come apart and can be scanned easily. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

I think the deadline was the 14th. I'm not organizing them this year. For the first time since 1999, except for one I didn't attend because my daughter was due, I didn't register to give a seminar. Not sure why.😐 I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

It doesn't matter what the wing loading any 150 is considered a high performance canopy and not suitable for your experience. If people are telling you you should get this size fet new friends/advisers. If you don't believe us make sure your health and life insurance are paid up. Yes, many people have lived through decisions like this inspite of themselves. Doesn't make it right or mean that you will. A lot haven't. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Almost, Vol II page163, R3-2750 -R3-3471. Stamped "Modified on accordance with Para-Flite Drawing No. 886028". I had one that had to get fixed. Hmmm, may still have it somewhere. Others in the area also. Think O have one of those too. But I stopped packing thhe last one 10 plus years ago. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Do you have the same use I do? I've been looking for high stregth 1" triglides for climbing harnesses for a year or so and couldn't find them. I think I found some the other day and bookmarked it but I'm not at home. I'll see when I can. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

No big deal until some has a hard pull, hits the end of the cable and thinks "its just the pin hitting the housing and stops pulling, with the pin still in the loop. For others this was the problem and end of ripcord stops that allowed old time jumpers to pull their main ripcord and then let go of it. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

So in other words it's the door to the "trunk, or boot". Yes. When we rip the interior out it becomes part of the cabin where we sit. Some operators put in smooth panels like the photo earlier so a jumper may have never seen the door from the inside. In 38 years I have never heard of that door coming open in flight but it probably has. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

Actually the baggage door allows access to the area below the back deck WHEN THE ENTIRE INTERIOR is in the aicraft. When the entire interior is in there is a deck/shelf at the level of the top of the rear seats to the rear bulk head. The area behind the seats can ONLY be accessed through the baggage door. You can't throw anything over the seats into that area. Google cessna 182 rear interior to see photos, since most skydibers have probably NEVER seen a 182, or any other jump olane with.the interior in place. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

The pin doesn’t go through even the big housing. The big housing is needed for the eye on the steel cable. But you k ow that. This is one of my dislikes of the system. The pin can act as a ripcord stop if it doesn't rotate out of the eye. If you're old enough to remember why ripcord stops were bad in the 70's you'll understand. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE

I don’t supposed PCA/USPA records exist of ASO, Area Saftey Officer 220? I was ine starting in 1983 until they became S&TA. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE